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A Companion to World War II


A Companion to World War II


Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History 1. Aufl.

von: Thomas W. Zeiler, Daniel M. DuBois

314,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 21.12.2012
ISBN/EAN: 9781118325056
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 1064

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<p><i>A Companion to World War II</i> brings together a series of fresh academic perspectives on World War II, exploring the many cultural, social, and political contexts of the war. Essay topics range from American anti-Semitism to the experiences of French-African soldiers, providing nearly 60 new contributions to the genre arranged across two comprehensive volumes. </p> <ul> <li>A collection of original historiographic essays that include cutting-edge research</li> <li>Analyzes the roles of neutral nations during the war</li> <li>Examines the war from the bottom up through the experiences of different social classes</li> <li>Covers the causes, key battles, and consequences of the war</li> </ul>
<p><b>Volume 1</b></p> <p><i>Notes on Contributors x</i></p> <p><i>Introduction 1</i></p> <p><b>Part I Roots of War 11</b></p> <p>1 How a Second World War Happened 13<br /> Gerhard L. Weinberg</p> <p>2 The Versailles Peace Settlement and the Collective Security System 29<br /> Frédéric Dessberg</p> <p>3 The Great Depression 47<br /> John E. Moser</p> <p>4 Colonialism in Asia 63<br /> Christopher D. O’Sullivan</p> <p>5 Visionaries of Expansion 77<br /> R. J. B. Bosworth</p> <p>6 Soviet Planning for War, 1928–June 1941 91<br /> Alexander Hill</p> <p><b>Part II Fighting the War 103</b></p> <p>7 Japanese Early Attack 105<br /> Brian P. Farrell</p> <p>8 War and Empire: The Transformation of Southern Asia 124<br /> Gary R. Hess</p> <p>9 CBI: A Historiographical Review 141<br /> Maochun Yu</p> <p>10 The German Assault, 1939–1941 154<br /> Robert M. Citino</p> <p>11 Militaries Compared: Wehrmacht and Red Army, 1941–1945 169<br /> Mark Edele</p> <p>12 The Bombers: The Strategic Bombing of Germany and Japan 186<br /> Randall Wakelam</p> <p>13 Scandinavian Campaigns 208<br /> Olli Vehviläinen</p> <p>14 The Naval War in the Mediterranean 222<br /> Barbara Brooks Tomblin</p> <p>15 Ocean War 243<br /> Ashley Jackson</p> <p>16 Maritime War: Combat, Management, and Memory 262<br /> Kevin Smith</p> <p>17 The Middle East and World War II 278<br /> Simon Davis</p> <p>18 The Western Front, 1944–1945 296<br /> Christopher R. Gabel</p> <p>19 Battle Fronts and Home Fronts: The War in the East from Stalingrad to Berlin 312<br /> Kenneth Slepyan</p> <p>20 German Defeat 333<br /> Neil Gregor</p> <p>21 Southwest Pacific 351<br /> Mark Roehrs</p> <p>22 The Military Occupations of World War II: A Historiography 368<br /> Nicholas Evan Sarantakes</p> <p>23 Ending the Pacific War: The New History 387<br /> Richard B. Frank</p> <p><b>Part III Multinational and Transnational Zones of Combat: Strategy 403</b></p> <p>24 Axis Coalition Building 405<br /> Richard L. DiNardo</p> <p>25 Strategies, Commands, and Tactics, 1939–1941 415<br /> Talbot C. Imlay</p> <p>26 British and American Strategic Planning 433<br /> Earl J. Catagnus, Jr.</p> <p>27 Wartime Conferences 448<br /> Mark A. Stoler</p> <p>28 The US War Against Japan: A Transnational Perspective 462<br /> Akira Iriye</p> <p>29 World War II and Communication Technologies 477<br /> James Schwoch</p> <p>30 Of Spies and Stratagems 482<br /> John Prados</p> <p>31 French African Soldiers in World War II 501<br /> Raffael Scheck</p> <p>32 Scientists and Nuclear Weapons in World War II: The Background, the Experience, and the Sometimes Contested Meanings and Analyses 516<br /> Barton J. Bernstein</p> <p>33 Civilians in the Combat Zone: Anglo-American<br /> Strategic Bombing 549<br /> Sean L. Malloy</p> <p><b>VOLUME II</b></p> <p><i>Notes on Contributors x</i></p> <p><i>Introduction 569</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Multinational and Transnational Zones of Combat: Society 579</b></p> <p>34 European Societies in Wartime 581<br /> Isabelle Davion</p> <p>35 Life in Plato’s Cave: Neutral Europe in World War II 603<br /> Neville Wylie</p> <p>36 Resistance in Eastern Europe 618<br /> Stephan Lehnstaedt</p> <p>37 Boomerang Resistance: German Émigrés in the US Army during World War II 638<br /> Patricia Kollander</p> <p>38 Beyond Impact: Toward a New Historiography of Africa and World War II 652<br /> Judith A. Byfield</p> <p>39 Race, Genocide, and Holocaust 666<br /> Jochen Böhler</p> <p>40 Holocaust and Genocide Today 685<br /> Yehuda Bauer</p> <p>41 Environmental Dimensions of World War II 698<br /> Jacob Darwin Hamblin</p> <p>42 The Women of World War II 717<br /> D’Ann Campbell</p> <p>43 Transnational Civil Rights during World War II 739<br /> Travis J. Hardy</p> <p>44 Global Culture and World War II 754<br /> M. Todd Bennett</p> <p><b>Part V Homelands 773</b></p> <p>45 The Balkans in the Origins of World War II 775<br /> Marietta Stankova</p> <p>46 Poland’s Military in World War II 792<br /> Michael Alfred Peszke</p> <p>47 Resistance inside Nazi Germany 813<br /> Frank McDonough</p> <p>48 Occupied France: The Vichy Regime, Collaboration, and Resistance 825<br /> Julian Jackson</p> <p>49 The Italian Campaign 841<br /> Elena Agarossi</p> <p>50 US Foreign Policy, the Grand Alliance, and the Struggle for Indian Independence during the Pacific War 859<br /> Sarah Ellen Graham</p> <p>51 “P” Was for Plenty 875<br /> William H. Miller</p> <p>52 Generating American Combat Power in World War II 893<br /> Edward G. Miller</p> <p>53 American Anti-Semitism during World War II 909<br /> Stephen H. Norwood</p> <p><b>Part VI A ftermath and Consequences 927</b></p> <p>54 War Crimes in Europe 929<br /> Christoph J. M. Safferling</p> <p>55 Anglo-American Postwar Planning 945<br /> Charlie Whitham</p> <p>56 The Cultural Legacy of World War II in Germany 962<br /> Susanne Vees-Gulani</p> <p>57 World War II in Historical Memory 978<br /> Marc Gallicchio</p> <p>58 The Place of World War II in Global History 999<br /> Gerhard L. Weinberg</p> <p><i>Index 1013</i></p>
<p>“Even so, this is a minor quibble. Zeiler, an expert on Japanese American relations and World War II, and DuBois, a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado–Boulder, have per­formed a real service for the field and are to be commended for their work.”  (<i>The Journal of American History</i>, 1 March 2014)</p> <p>“This would be an essential purchase for academic and special libraries with large humanities collections.”  (<i>Reference Reviews,</i> 1 November 2013)</p> <p>“There is no doubt that, taken as a whole, the Companion is full of first-class, historiographical and bibliographical information and insights. . . Accordingly one can unreservedly recommend it to all University and Departmental libraries as a reliable work of reference on the state of research into the Second World War.”  (Cercles, 1 December 2013)</p> <p>“This companion is destined to become a valuable contribution to the historiography of the war, and should find a welcome home in either the reference or general collection of any academic library.  Summing Up.  Essential.  All academic levels/libraries.”  (<i>Choice</i>, 1 September 2013)</p> <p> </p>
<p><b>Thomas W. Zeiler</b> is Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. The editor of the journal <i>Diplomatic History</i> and former president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, he is the author of <i>Unconditional Defeat: Japan, America, and the End of World War II</i> (2004), <i>Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire</i> (2006), <i>American Foreign Relations since 1600: A Guide to the Literature, Third Edition</i> (2007), and <i>Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II</i> (2010).</p> <p><b>Daniel M. DuBois</b> is a doctoral candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the assistant editor of the journal <i>Diplomatic History</i>.</p>
<p>Offering readers much more than a military history, this unparalleled collection of 58 state-of-the-field historiographic essays explores the widely varying contexts in which nations and transnational communities experienced World War II. In doing so, it provides insight into how the war linked nations, systems, and cultures, and sets the agenda for future research. <i>A Companion to World War II</i> introduces readers to the myriad factors influencing the war’s developments, examining the various theatres of operation, the diplomacy, economics, intelligence, and home front experiences of a host of nations including major neutrals.</p> <p>The essays include topics as diverse as American anti-Semitism, women in wartime, French-African soldiers, internal resistance in Nazi Germany, the war’s impact on the struggle for independence in India, and post-war planning, among others. The collection identifies scholarly and official debates – in the English-speaking community as well as in other languages – about the course of the war through historiographic analysis by established and emerging experts in their fields. It represents a major new contribution to the academic literature on an event of unparalleled centrality in world history.</p>

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